Rewind a year, and it became clear that Toronto was set to deal its ace. New York's interest was obvious, and the Yankees were willing to deal prized catching prospect Jesus Montero and Austin Jackson, but were unwilling to part with Chamberlain or Hughes. Eventually, Toronto swung a three-team deal with Seattle and Philadelphia, and the Phillies assembled one of the best rotations in baseball history this offseason.

Now, the Yankees have CC Sabathia, Phil Hughes, and AJ Burnett at the top of their rotation, and will fill the fourth and fifth slots with some combination of Bartolo Colon, Ivan Nova, Sergio Mitre, Mark Prior, and Freddy Garcia. Halladay could have filled one of those empty spots.

Chamberlain reportedly showed up to Spring Training yesterday noticeably overweight and even GM Brian Cashman admitted that Chamberlain is no sure-thing to be with the Bombers with the season begins.